Frances Spalding
Lund Humphries
Hardback
336
2005
John Minton (1917-57) was a successful painter an admired and influential illustrator and in his own lifetime a myth. Minton kept hidden a deep melancholy that eventually led him to take his own life aged thirty-nine. Frances Spalding s sensitive account of Minton s life and work makes use of letters articles and revue sketches by Minton himself as well as many interviews with the artist s friends and acquaintances.
Lund Humphries
Hardback
336
2005
John Minton (1917-57) was a successful painter an admired and influential illustrator and in his own lifetime a myth. Minton kept hidden a deep melancholy that eventually led him to take his own life aged thirty-nine. Frances Spalding s sensitive account of Minton s life and work makes use of letters articles and revue sketches by Minton himself as well as many interviews with the artist s friends and acquaintances.